Re: Refactoring the tracker
Florian Weimer wrote:
> Another issue which has gained some significance lately is that the
> package and CVE lists have grown quite a bit, leading to longer and
> longer processing times on soler. I've removed a few unused features
> to speed things up a bit, but it seems that we're at the bare minimum
> right now.
I think it would be a great opportunity to use post-commit hooks to make the
scripts on soler only update the database instead of regenerating it all the
time.
> Are there any suggestions for programming languages and web toolkits?
> (A more typical approach to HTML generation would probably make it
> easier to copy the official Debian web site design.) We can certainly
> stick to Python; it's a bit on the slow side, but perhaps we can reuse
> some of the code.
I'm more on the other side of the languages (perl, php, etc), but if the
majority prefers python (and that seems to be the case) then let's stick
with python.
> Constraints are: it has to run on soler eventually, and I don't think
> we can require Javascript on the client.
Using javascript could be a plus, to make the interface "nicer."
I personally found the OO approach to the generation of the web pages really
painful.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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